What Do You Think of Fireworks as a Business?

Just look at the aftermath of New Years Celebration last night!

                              The sun is reddish and almost covered by firecracker smoke

                             The townscape is hidden by smoke from firecrackers

                              Visibility at street level is about l00 meters?

An Ateneo Graduate School of Business Advantage

The last five days of 2011 saw the brisk sales of fireworks;  for the last two days of the year, municipalities set up pyrotechnics site/rows where the vendors could ply their trade.  In our place, most of the vendors are Moslem traders, and most of the fireworks are made in Bulacan.

These must be a huge business.  There are actually imports from China and I know that Dragon Fireworks for example employs modern techniques in manufacturing and  wide network of marketers in their business. The owner was a guest entrepreneur in the class.  (We actually bought hundreds of thousand pesos worth of fireworks for our Memorial Park Nov. l event/celebration)

I wonder whether the fireworks regulation is strictly enforced by authorities.  Considering the injuries and other health hazards coming from fireworks:   watusi poisoning, pollution , possible lung diseases, is fireworks a sound sustainable business?   Is it for the good of all?   Is it beneficial for everyone concerned - goes the Rotarian questioning?

What do you think?

                                    Fireworks trash dump

                             Firecracker exploded wrapper litter

                             More firecracker wrapper litter

                              The fireworks row, and the trash left by Vendors

              The signage for designaed fire and pyrotechnic device selling area

  There were dozens of firecracker/technics device vendors here yesterday, they did not clean up

                  It was hazy and visibility was poor this morning; throat becomes itchy